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This morning, two paragraphs for spring.
Do you remember where I went when I went out? I don’t. Did you meet me, or did I meet you? Meeting met meeting. The day was wearing an outfit. The birds were zinging. Catch one for me you said, or did I say it to you?…
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Paragraphs for Spring
Dear Friends, In my Zen life, I’ve been teaching Zen poetry and the poetic-philosophical works of Eihei Dogen where I’ve found a welling of spring energies. I am feeling the grief of the world these days, the tearing-apart and the suffering of too many. There is no way, in my own heart, to reconcile this with the vivid coming-to-life of spring, and yet both are happening at the same time, in my own being.

Sources: Nigeria detains two senior Binance executives who flew to the country following its decision last week to ban several crypto trading websites (Financial Times)
https://t.co/aurcPCtF8F

PACE recognized Putin as illegitimate. Ukraine in Flames #604: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/27/pace-recognized-putin.html

"De overheid trok in 2021 bijna 6 miljard euro uit om corona-achterstanden in het basis- en middelbaar onderwijs terug te dringen. De Algemene Rekenkamer waarschuwde meermaals dat de regeling te vaag was, maar het ministerie maakte het geld toch over. Drie jaar later is nauwelijks te achterhalen waar de miljarden zijn gebleven, maar een ding is duidelijk: commerciële onderwijsaanbieders hebben flink geprofiteerd."
Dat los van de vraag hoe echt die achterstanden waren...

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]

more details on the #HotDocs mass resignation:
https://povmagazine.com/hot-docs-programmers-resign-en-masse/

Hot Docs Programmers Resign En Masse (Includes Update) - POV Magazine
Ten members of Hot Docs' programming team resign following reports of internal conflict at the documentary festival.

When the impostor syndrome kicks in...
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Using Programmable Drone in Educational Projects and Competitions
Pavel Petrovi\v{c}, Peter Ver\v{c}im\'ak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17409 https://

Using Programmable Drone in Educational Projects and Competitions
The mainstream of educational robotics platforms orbits the various versions of versatile robotics sets and kits, while interesting outliers add new opportunities and extend the possible learning situations. Examples of such are reconfigurable robots, rolling sphere robots, humanoids, swimming, or underwater robots. Another kind within this category are flying drones. While remotely controlled drones were a very attractive target for hobby model makers for quite a long time already, they were s…

Dear @…,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]